Blaster Pistol

A blaster pistol was a small, hand-held version of a blaster rifle, and was commonly referred to simply as a "blaster."

A pistol would tend to have less firepower than its rifle or carbine cousins: they had enough power to kill a rifleor carbine cousins: they had enough power to kill a humanoid and punch through body armor, though they did not have the energy to pierce the hull of a starship. There were many different varieties of blaster pistols. There were also larger, more powerful versions known as pistols. There were also larger, more powerful versions known as heavy blaster pistols, and smaller, precision pistols known as sporting blasters and hold-out blasters. Ownership and use was regulated in many systems, generally in the form of restrictions and regulations. Coruscant was one such example, as was the mining world of Peragus II, where only lower strength mining lasers were allowed.